Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Alexander Hamilton

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

Vandana Shiva

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

David F. Houston

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

Alexander Pope

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Dan Glickman

One of the trends we’re seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it’s grown and what’s in it,

Debbie Stabenow

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

Alice Waters

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

Allan Savory

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Robert H. Connelly

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take half so much satisfaction in observing those of other people.

Charles Churchill

To copy faults is want of sense.

Charles Darwin

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Oscar Wilde

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Hasidic Proverb

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none

Abraham Lincoln

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Lindy Ruff

I think that we're getting there, ... Those are two lines that could stick for a while.

Andrew Friedman

I thought it went well. I thought it was important to keep the lines of communications open.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.